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The Untameable

Name: The Untameable
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Author: Guillermo Arriaga
ISBN: 9780857058218

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Guillermo Arriaga, Frank Wynne, Jessie Mendez Sayer

MacLehose Press
Paru le : 08/07/2020

Goodfellas meets White Fang. By the BAFTA-winning screenwriter of Amores Perros."An epic tale" Sunday Times Crime Club"A fast-moving, intriguing and virile... > Lire la suite

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Goodfellas meets White Fang. By the BAFTA-winning screenwriter of Amores Perros."An epic tale" Sunday Times Crime Club"A fast-moving, intriguing and virile novel" Irish Examiner"Of all the wolves you will see in your life, one alone will be your master."Yukon, Canada's far north. A young man tracks a wolf through the wilderness. The one his grandfather warned him about. In Mexico City, Juan Guillermo has pledged vengeance.
For his murdered brother, Carlos. For his parents, sentenced to death by their grief. But in 1960s Mexico justice is sold to the highest bidder, and the Catholic fanatics who killed Carlos are allied to Zunita, a corrupt and influential police commander. If he is to quench his thirst for revenge Juan Guillermo will have to answer his inner call of the wild and discover what links his destiny to a hunter on the other side of America.
A gripping coming of age thriller of vengeance and destiny set between Mexico City's murderous 1960s underworld and the bleak tundras of Canada's most remote province. Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne and Jessie Mendez Sayer

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Date de parution : 08/07/2020
Editeur : MacLehose Press
ISBN : 978-0-85705-821-8
EAN : 9780857058218
Format : ePub

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Guillermo Arriaga is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. His novels, Escuadrón Guillotina (1991), A Sweet Smell to Death (1994), The Buffalo of the Night (1999) and short story collection, Retorno 201, have been translated into eighteen languages. His films include Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel and The Burning Plain. He has recently produced the story of Desde Alla, the first Ibero-American film to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
In February 2017 he won the Mazatlan Prixe for Literature for The Untameable. Frank Wynne is an award-winning writer and translator. His previous translations include works by Virginie Despentes, Javier Cercas, Mathias Énard, Michel Houllebecq and Pierre Lemaitre. He chaired the jury of the 2022 Booker International. Most recently his translation of The Art of Losing won the 2022 Dublin Literary Award.